theology

Key Terms:

• Sacred Heart

  • Heart of Jesus, signifies love

• Charism

  • A living passion for a particular dimension of the gospel

• Reparation

  • to repair

  • Jesus repaired the relationship between God and His people

• St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

  • Dec. 1673 –  June 1675: Jesus appears to Margaret Mary 3 times and reveals his Divine Heart to her

  • Received the 12 promises

  • After Alacoque's death, the devotion to the Sacred Heart was fostered by the Jesuits. The practice was not officially recognized by the Church for 75 years.

• Blessed Clelia Merloni

  • Founder of the Apostles of the Heart of Christ

    • Serving others - women and orphans

    • Prayer and action

Key Concepts:

• Sacred Heart Devotion

  • Making God’s love known

• Blessed Clelia’s biographical information:

  • Main Details

  • People in her life

    • Her Father

    • Priest Scalabrini - stole inheritance

    • Guilia

    • Fr. Gaetano

    • Sr. Eliza

    • God

  • Country of Birth

    • Viaggero, Italy - 1861

  • Her Exile

    • 1916-1928

  • Venerable

    • 2016

  • Beatification

    • 2018

    • Miracle: man was paralyzed, going to die. A sister gave the patient's wife novena of Clelia, they prayed, and he miraculously healed.

• ASCJs

  • Know the charism of the order, to be Apostles of… (3 things)

    • Charism: “The Love of Christ Impels Us”

    • Apostles of Love - show tender love of god, esp towards poor, marginalized, and underserved

      • Love others like Jesus, help poor and needy

    • Apostles of Reparation - repair the image of God that’s been destroyed, by loving those most wounded and restoring their dignity as children of God.

      • Forgive others, teach them what’s right

    • Apostles like the First Apostles - spending time with Jesus in prayer and going out to help those in need

      • Pray to Jesus and help those in need

• Cor Jesu Academy

  • Identify the core beliefs

    • Catholic-Faith based community

    • Excellence in Education

    • Service to Others

    • Caring Community

    • Personal integrity

  • Motto: “Sharing the love of the heart of Christ”

  • Ways we live out the Charism at CJA.

    • Service club

    • Giving to others that are in need

    • Go to First Friday Mass

    • Put effort and care into your studies 

  • What did we learn on the tour?

    • The ASCJ seal - “The Love of Christ impels us”

      • Top

        • Dove = Holy Spirit

      • Bottom

        • Dove w/ olive branch = peace

        • Boat = Missionary being sent out to bring peace

• Other

  • Pierced side of Christ represents: Baptism and Eucharist

  • Passover: Eucharist

  • Sacred Heart is outside His body: so that it can be seen by the world and to show that His love is infinite

CAN YOU…?

• Identify the 5 elements of the Sacred Heart and the meaning of each?

  • Heart: Jesus and His great love for us

  • Flames: Burning, transformative love that God has for us

  • Cross: God transforming death into life through Jesus’ death

  • Crown of Thorns: Jesus’ kingship and the humiliation he experienced for us

  • Wound: How Jesus is wounded by all the sins in the world

• Identify and explain how we can bring reparation to the places where it is needed?

  • Prayer,sacrifices,acts of charity/service

Key Terms:

• Oral tradition - the handing of the message of God's saving plan through words and deeds.

• Written tradition - Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the synthesis in written form of the message of salvation that has been passed down in the oral tradition.

• New Testament - The 27 books of the Bible, which have the life, teachings, Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ and the beginnings of the Church as their central theme.

• Old Testament -  46 books of the Bible, before Jesus

• Deuterocanonical - books of the Old Testament that do not appear in the Hebrew Scriptures but are accepted by the Church as part of the canon of Scripture

• Torah/Pentateuh -referring to the first five books of the Old Testament

• Salvation History - the pattern of specific events in human history in which God clearly reveals his presence and saving actions.

• Sacred Scripture - a collection of ancient writings that Christians believe are inspired by God to reveal Him to us.

• Canon - NO.

• Magisterium - The Church's living teaching office, which consists of all the bishops in the world, in communion with the Pope, the bishop of Rome.

• Divine Revelation - God making known to humans the mystery of His divine plan, which happens through the trinity in the words, events, and deeds of Salvation History.

• Divine Inspiration - inspiration that comes from God/the Holy Spirit

• Exegesis -  Biblical exegesis-- the critical interpretation and explanation of Sacred Scripture.

• Critical - analytical, methodical

  • What does THAT mean?

    • It refers to being able to read the Bible and use what we know about the time, situation, and language usage to understand the stories and teachings.

Key Concepts:

• Four stages of development of biblical texts:

  1. A significant event happens

  2. It gets passed down orally (oral tradition)

  3. It gets written down through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (written tradition)

  4. It meets the 4 criteria to be put in Scripture by the council

• Languages of the Bible

  1. Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic

• Difference between the Catholic and Protestant canons

Catholic Canon: 46 books in the Old Testament, including the Deuterocanonical books, and 27 in the New Testament.

Protestant Canon: 39 books in the Old Testament, excluding the Deuterocanonical books, and 27 in the New Testament.

• Criteria for choosing Canon

  1. Apostolic origin

  2. Universal acceptance

  3. Liturgical use

  4. Consistency

• The relationship between the Old and New Testaments

  1. Old: Distinguish events that happened before Jesus

  2. New: “New” bc God had never revealed himself through Jesus before

• Tell what is the process of Biblical Exegesis

  • We have to work to grasp what human authors were trying to express

  • It refers to being able to read the Bible and use what we know about the time, situation, and language usage to understand the stories and teachings.

• Name the 3 scriptural senses and give examples of each

Literal sense: considers the plain meaning of the text. The literal sense is the meaning intended by the human author.

• World built in 6 days

Spiritual sense: interpretation that builds on the literal sense, considering what the realities and events of scripture signify and mean for salvation

• Abraham sacrificing his son isaac

Key Terms & People:

• Original Sin - The fallen state of human nature that affects every person born into the world (except Jesus and Mary); also the first humans

• Covenant -  a solemn agreement between humans or between people and God in which solemn commitments are made.

• Patriarch - The father or leader of a tribe, clan, or tradition. This word refers to the fathers of our faith: Abraham and his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob.

• Israel - ancient kingdom or land promised to Abraham and his descendants in the Bible.

• Promised Land - the land that God pledged to Abraham and his descendants in the Bible

• Typology -  the study of how God's work in the stories of the OT points to what he later accomplished through Jesus in the NT.

• Theophany - God's manifestation of himself in a visible form to enrich human understanding of him.

• Abraham & Sarah -  Father and mother of Isaac; made a covenant with God.

• Isaac - son of Abraham, married Rebekah; parents of Jacob and Esau.

• Jacob - father of 12 sons, founder of the 12 tribes of Israel.

• The 12 Tribes of Israel- Descendants of Jacob’s 12 sons.

• Joseph - Jacob’s son, sold into Egypt, later saved his family.

• Moses - Led Israelites out of Egypt

• Passover - God "passed over" the houses of the Israelites during the tenth plague—the killing of the firstborn—because they put blood from lamb on their doorposts.

• Ark of the Covenant -  the sacred chest in which the tablets containing the 10 Commandments were kept.

• Tabernacle - A portable tent where the Israelites worshiped God during their journey.

• Joshua -  Moses’ successor, led Israelites into the Promised Land.

Key Concepts:

• Covenant

  • Identify the promises and signs of the covenant with Abraham

    • Promise: God would offer protection and land to Abraham and his descendants

    • Signs: Change of name and circumcision

• Basic family tree: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their spouses and children:

Abraham (Abram)

• Spouse:

  • Sarah (Sarai)

  • Hagar (concubine)

• Children:

  • Ishmael (mother: Hagar)

  • Isaac (mother: Sarah)

Isaac

• Spouse:

  • Rebekah

• Children:

  • Esau (firstborn)

  • Jacob

Jacob (Israel)

• Spouses and Concubines:

  • Leah (first wife, sister of Rachel)

  • Rachel (second wife, Jacob's favorite)

  • Bilhah (Rachel’s maidservant, concubine)

  • Zilpah (Leah’s maidservant, concubine)

• Children:

  • By Leah:

    • Reuben

    • Simeon

    • Levi

    • Judah

    • Issachar

    • Zebulun

    • Dinah (daughter)

  • By Rachel:

    • Joseph

    • Benjamin

  • By Bilhah:

    • Dan

    • Naphtali

  • By Zilpah:

    • Gad

    • Asher

• Examples of a theophany and typology

  • Theophany: God appearing to Moses in the form of a burning bush

  • Typology: Moses gets the 10 Commandments on Mt. Sinai → Jesus gives us the 10 Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount

• The importance of the Mosaic Law/10 commandments

  • Guidelines of what israelites should follow

• Unfaithfulness of the Israelites and their punishment from God

  • Built a golden calf to worship 

  • Didn’t trust that God would provide them with resources to live. 

• Name and explain the truths we learn from the 2 creation accounts of Genesis

  • Genesis 1:

    • Impersonal (god is far away)

    • Created the world

  • Genesis 2:

    • personal 

    • Created man

• Name the consequences of Adam and Eve’s disobedience and how they continue to affect us today

  • We are born with sin

  • Out of harmony with each other and all creation 

• Describe the kind of people who God calls and explain why you think God chooses these people as leaders—Moses?

  • God picks ordinary people that are humble.